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Sep-Oct 1985 Archive
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September-October 1985

Column

Journals: Shades of ’39, Tsukuba by Marc Mancini
Journals: Showers and Sardines, Cannes by Mary Corliss
Journals: Desperately Seeking Esther, Taormina by Harlan Kennedy
Journals: Prizzi’s Opera by Michael Walsh
Video: Turn on the Dark by Lois P. Sheinfeld
Pensées: Growing Up Western by Richard T. Jameson

Feature

Choice Parts by Marcia Pally
Notes on the Making of Ran by Peter Grilli
Paul Schrader’s Mishima by Frank Segers
Ralph & Alice & Ed & Trixie by J. Hoberman
Amazing Anthologies by Elvis Mitchell
Bad Girls of the Sahara by Jim Verniere

Interview

David Hare by Steve Lawson
Wayne Wang by David Thomson

Midsection

A Separate Cinema by John Kisch and Donald Bogle
No Business Like Micheaux Business by Donald Bogle
Telling It on the Mountain by Armond White

Department

Letters: Cuban Imbroglio by Film Comment
Back Page: Quiz #15 by Film Comment
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